Word: localization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latvia I send frequently your delightful periodical. I herewith quote a criticism on the subject of an article that appeared in an issue several weeks ago [TIME, March 28] to the effect that the German Envoy to Latvia was making himself and his country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true he is a florid beerbibber and goes in for 'Beer Abends...
...Detroit, Mich., citizens were indignant when the Automobile Club revealed, following investigation of a man arrested for driving at 45 m.p.h., that 17 of the 52 inmates of a local insane asylum had automobile driving licenses and used them during suspension periods. The 45-m.p.h.-man believed that at that speed his motor ran at no cost, being actuated by the power of a foreign spirit...
This removal of emphasis from the local to the national certainly must affect the alumni representation which governs Harvard. In the current Alumni Bulletin Mr. N. H. Batchelder pleads for a more inclusive delegation to comprise the Overseers. His impetus was Mr. Owen Wister's suggestion, made last year, that all the candidates be drawn from the near vicinity of Cambridge. With this Mr. Batchelder disagrees, basing his opinion on the fact that such a group would give no indication of Harvard's national character...
Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...
There were two McGuffeys and their series (five times revised) was last reprinted by the American Book Co. (Cincinnati) in 1901. In 1835, Dr. William Holmes McGuffey, then president and professor of "Moral and Intellectual Philosophy" at Cincinnati College, was asked by the Messrs. Truman & Smith, local publishers, to prepare a series of eclectic readings for the young. This he did, in 18 months, paying one of his students $5 to copy out the selections...